thick clients

[Jean-Francois CLEMENT]

Hi,

i can't answer to all your questions, but i really suggest you to go to 
: 
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/BootingClientsWithoutPxe?highlight=%28pxe%29

for replace the PXE boot rom by a small file on your hard disk and 
preserve a zero administration on the clients.

JFC

brent larsen wrote:

> is it possible to install a base system to hard drive that consists of 
> just the image that is downloaded via tftp so that a "thick" client 
> can boot, and then attach to the server?  I ask becuase I have a 
> handful of old machines that dont have LAN built into the motherboard, 
> so they cant boot from network, but they all have lan cards that work.
>
> how do you go about setting up a thick client?
>
> are there different levels of "thick" client?
>
> how do I select which is best to use?
>
> is there a way to have the clients update thier install from the 
> server, in the background, while they are in use?
>
> is this even the right place to ask these questions? (is there a site 
> somewhere that anwsers them)  -- I checked the edubuntu wiki, but I 
> cant find much of anything there yet.
>
> -Brent